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Amazon's amazing e-book reader Kindle is bad news for the publishing industry. File this under: Things we could have told you months ago. [Slate]

Welcome to our neighborhood, New York Times! Starting Monday, The Times will be launching a local blog initiative in sites like Fort Greene and Clinton Hill, the "SoHo of Brooklyn" in case you're wondering. [Brownstoner]

Don't tell us you haven't considered this at least once: an Upper West Side woman is suing her neighbor's chihuahuas [NYMag]

And, finally, the biggest story of the day, we all were taken for a ride at the helms of Joshua David Stein. He took over for Lockhart, and the folks at eater.com for the day and we were all in for quite the treat! [Eater]